Search widget problem

AB_Dev · 2011-08-31T15:41:17.000Z

Hi. I’m using the search widget on a site Ive developed and it’s been working fine for weeks pulling in only tweets with a specific hashtag. Yesterday it started pulling in random tweets unrelated to the search query. Anybody have any idea why this is happening?

cansozeri · 2011-09-07T21:09:23.000Z

Same problem … The api started to pull random tweets unrelated with search query. I have checked it on the api site demo too. It is the same. But if I delete a word from my query it is pulling the right tweets. After that starting unrelated tweets again…

episod · 2011-09-07T21:37:49.000Z

Hi Can & Awesome Button,

Can you provide examples of the queries you used that returned these seemingly unrelated results? Were the unrelated results containing URLs? Are you requesting result_type=popular or result_type=mixed or result_type=recent?

khakiwebsites · 2011-09-08T08:10:38.000Z

I got the same problem for a week now…

AB_Dev · 2011-09-08T20:09:03.000Z

We are using the search widget on out site with one term “hldecrypt”… it’s been pulling in random stuff for a week. If I change the case of the search term (ie “HLDecrypt”) it loses the extra tweets for a few hours then they come back. Here’s the code…

new TWTR.Widget({
version: 2,
type: ‘search’,
search: ‘HLDecrypt’,
interval: 6000,
title: ‘’,
subject: ‘’,
width: 390,
height: 320,
theme: {
shell: {
background: ‘none’,
color: ‘#ffffff’
},
tweets: {
background: ‘none’,
color: ‘#FFFFFF’,
links: ‘#BC9220’
}
},
features: {
scrollbar: true,
loop: true,
live: true,
hashtags: false,
timestamp: true,
avatars: true,
toptweets: false,
behavior: ‘default’
}
}).render().start();

meltronx · 2011-09-09T00:52:13.000Z

I had a related problem, May have fixed it when i changed http to https
when calling https://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js

episod · 2011-09-09T15:09:58.000Z

We’re investigating this circumstance of irrelevant results occasionally mixing in with search results. No ETA at the moment, but it is indeed being looked at.

Thanks.

brich_sf · 2011-09-15T13:37:33.000Z

We have been running into the same issue for a number of weeks now. It used to occur at all different hours of the day, then fix itself later on. Now it only seems to be happening around 9:00pm EST. The next time I looked at it which was around 8:30am EST the following day, it was back to normal. Hope that helps.

PieterKoster · 2011-09-16T07:23:33.000Z

We experience this issue for some weeks now on several websites, where other sites are working OK… (same settings - just a different search query).

Any news on this issue?

decretk · 2011-09-16T13:16:41.000Z

After reading this article http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/26/here-comes-twitter-spam-and-how-to-fight-it/

I changed my query from ‘@teknologidagene OR #teknologidagene OR teknologidagene’’ to just ‘teknologidagene’ and that seems (for now) to have stopped the spam tweets.

episod · 2011-09-16T13:50:10.000Z

We’re still working on it; I’ll check with the team on an ETA.

episod · 2011-09-16T13:56:04.000Z

Fix is still a few weeks out; if you discover alternate query forms that mitigate the issue for you in the meantime, I recommend exploring them.

DenLinTech · 2012-05-27T04:15:34.000Z

I have similar issue works on one website (different user) but not on 2 others using the same exact code just a different search parameters (user id) with hashtag

					<script>
                    new TWTR.Widget({
                      version: 2,
                      type: 'search',
                      search: '#news from:userid',
					  rpp: 3,
                      interval: 6000,
                      width: 340,
                      height: 180,
                      theme: {
                        shell: {
                          background: '#ffffff',
                          color: '#000033'
                        },
                        tweets: {
                          background: '#ffffff',
                          color: '#000033',
                          links: '#bf3131'
                        }
                      },
                      features: {
                        scrollbar: true,
                        loop: false,
                        live: true,
                        hashtags: true,
                        timestamp: true,
                        avatars: false,
                        toptweets: false,
                        behavior: 'all'
                      }
                    }).render().start();
                    </script>

EIJV · 2012-06-03T19:45:57.000Z

I got the search widget on www.eijv.nl an have the same issue, no results on search string, but by clicking on join the conversation it will give results.
search string is: “edese ijsvereniging” OR #eijv OR @eijv

HaycoFrielink · 2012-06-09T07:49:00.000Z

Seems to be a difference between top/all tweets. The search widget takes the top tweet functionality i assume. This give less results.
All https://twitter.com/#!/search/Eijv
Top https://twitter.com/#!/Eijv

HaycoFrielink · 2012-06-09T07:54:00.000Z

In addition to last reaction. It should be:
Top: . https://twitter.com/#!/search/Eijv
All: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/Eijv

Essssay · 2013-06-25T03:53:25.000Z

My tweets are not appearing for last one week. My complete code is given below. Please help.

niall · 2016-02-06T06:03:39.939Z